-=> Quoting CHRIS THURTELL to THE VISIONARY <=-
-=> Quoting The Visionary to Kurt Wismer <=-
TV> It was a glaring security flaw they overlooked that allowed the
TV> worm to exploit their systems. The SysAdmin should have been jailed,
TV> and they should have hired the worm author in his place.
CT> Hang on a sec. It wasn't just that *system*. It was a problem with
CT> the mail daemon on a ver of unix ( can't remember which one )
It's a 'feature' in sendmail. Since sendmail is such a powerful
program, and there's been MANY books written about it, there's a lot of ways
to use it to compromise other systems.
-The Visionary
visionary@brazerko.com
... Netmail doesn't exist; the Sysop types all this in!
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